Influx Dance was formed by Mattias Sperling (http://www.matthias-sperling.com/) He used a few second year dance students from Coventry University.
This was a totally different form of art to what I had seen before but I really liked it because it was original, short and sweet. I liked how he used lots of vocal collages (mainly used in abstract theatre). There were rhyming ones and saying a single action and then doing it, for example saying 'Over the roof tops'! and they were then lifted onto the shoulders of another and walked around the wall, but my favourite was when they described an object and the audience had to shout out what they thought it was, for example, 'They come from the ground, you can boil them, mash them and put the in a stew,' and that would be a potato.
The main dance in this was mainly contact improvisation and using the support of your fellow dancers. There was a big crash mat that they could fall onto which you could tell the dancers really enjoyed doing.
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